About Us
Jobs With Justice
Jobs with Justice engages workers and allies in campaigns to win justice in workplaces and in communities where working families live. JwJ was founded in 1987 with the vision of lifting up workers’ rights struggles as part of a larger campaign for economic and social justice. We believe in long-term multi-issue coalition building , grassroots base-building and organizing and strategic militant action as the foundation for building a grassroots movement, and we believe that by engaging a broad community of allies, we can win bigger victories. Jobs with Justice has more than 40 affiliates in 25 states around the country, coalitions of labor, religious, student and community organizations that are committed to each other for the long haul.
Institute for Policy Studies –Program on Inequality and the Common Good
The Institute for Policy Studies turns Ideas into Action for Peace, Justice and the Environment. We strengthen social movements with independent research, visionary thinking, and links to the grassroots, scholars and elected officials. The Program on Inequality and the Common Good focuses on the dangers that growing inequality pose for U.S. democracy, economic health and civic life. The Program coordinates the Working Group on Extreme Inequality.
Working Group on Extreme Inequality
The Working Group on Extreme Inequality was founded in 2007 to challenge the concentrated wealth and power that increasingly sit at the top of our economic ladder. Based at the Institute for Policy Studies, our work includes mobilization, education and advocacy for public policies that not only lift the floor and reduce poverty –but address the concentration of wealth and income.
About the Authors
Nick Thorkelson is a cartoonist and graphic designer, whose work has appeared in the Boston Globe, Dollars & Sense magazine, and comics anthologies about SDS and the IWW. He is working on a book-length comics memoir about his adventures in San Francisco at the end of the ’sixties. Website: www.nickthorkelson.com
Chuck Collins is an organizer and senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He coordinates the Working Group on Extreme Inequality (www.extremeinequality.org). Collins is the author of several books on economic inequality including: Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Insecurity; Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Inherited Fortunes; and The Moral Measure of the Economy.